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- Judges are evil bolsheviks who have way too much power
- Justice is way too lax on crime
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Justice is too lax on crime in the sense that serious crimes (ones that intend to hurt actual people either by hurting them, or taking away their autonomy or life) are punished by using a method shown not to work: incarceration.
Most other ‘crimes’ aren’t really crimes.
White collar crimes are absolutely crimes, and not punished severely enough. They often create larger amounts of indirect hurt than a typical robbery, with less penalty.
Incarceration is a necessary step, even for rehabilitation based systems, in the case of violent crimes. You need to remove the people from the situations that caused them to be like that, and prevent them from hurting others in the process of rehabilitation.
Not everyone is capable of going through rehabilitation either, and you need some method to keep them removed from society.